MURNANE, Gerald. Inland. London: Faber & Faber. 1988. 8vo. First British edition. Publisher’s black cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the dust jacket designed by Russell Mills. A near fine example, the cloth clean and bright, the binding tight and square, the contents slightly and evenly toned throughout from paper quality, else fine without stamps, inscriptions, or foxing. The dust jacket unclipped (£10.99 net) and fine.
The Australian author’s fourth novel, which is without plot and with few characters, written with ‘fluid, lucid prose’ which ‘supports an unusual flexibility of narrative and narrator’. Despite its perceived near-inaccessibility—and this one is considered by many his best—he remains a long-term shoe-in for the Nobel Prize. Originally published by Heinemann Australia, this first British edition is equally scarce; all of his early novels are difficult to find.
MURNANE, Gerald. Inland. London: Faber & Faber. 1988. 8vo. First British edition. Publisher’s black cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the dust jacket designed by Russell Mills. A near fine example, the cloth clean and bright, the binding tight and square, the contents slightly and evenly toned throughout from paper quality, else fine without stamps, inscriptions, or foxing. The dust jacket unclipped (£10.99 net) and fine.
The Australian author’s fourth novel, which is without plot and with few characters, written with ‘fluid, lucid prose’ which ‘supports an unusual flexibility of narrative and narrator’. Despite its perceived near-inaccessibility—and this one is considered by many his best—he remains a long-term shoe-in for the Nobel Prize. Originally published by Heinemann Australia, this first British edition is equally scarce; all of his early novels are difficult to find.
